Exposure

English Meaning

The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or contempt.

1. The act or an instance of exposing, as:
2. An act of subjecting or an instance of being subjected to an action or an influence: their first exposure to big city life.
3. Appearance in public or in the mass media: an actor with much recent exposure in television.
4. Revelation, especially of crime or guilt: exposure of graft in county government.
5. The act of presenting a body part, especially the genitals, to view: indecent exposure.
6. The condition of being exposed, especially to severe weather or other forces of nature: was hospitalized for the effects of exposure.
7. A position in relation to climatic or weather conditions or points of the compass: Our house has a southern exposure.
8. The act of exposing sensitized photographic film or plate.
9. A photographic plate or a piece of film so exposed.
10. The amount of radiant energy needed to expose a photographic film.